British Royal Family News find that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle might have gone on the record to suggest racial undertones behind closed doors at Buckingham Palace, but a report from 2009 says the Duke of Sussex used the terms ‘Paki’ and ‘raghead’ towards fellow soldiers while he was still in the military.
Muslim organizations in Britain were outraged at the time, prompting an apology from St. James’s Palace. Here’s what you need to know.
While Prince Harry is certainly not the same man that he was over 12 years ago, many royal critics point out that he has made the same mistakes that he is now accusing his royal family of making with his wife, Meghan Markle.
British Royal Family News: Prince Harry’s Racial Slurs Towards Muslims Resurface
Back in 2009, a 24-year-old Harry, who was third in line for succession to the throne, was forced to say sorry after he was caught on video using the term Paki about an Asian colleague in the Army.
In the clip, Prince Harry calls an officer from the Pakistani army, who was on the course with him, “our little Paki friend” and, when he sees another officer cadet wearing a camouflage veil, exclaims: “F… me, you look like a raghead.”
If that weren’t enough, Harry was also mocking his grandmother the Queen during a pretend phone call.
A Ministry of Defense spokesman said at the time, “This sort of language is not acceptable in a modern army.” Staff officers have insisted the Army’s policy must be “zero tolerance to all forms of discrimination.”
The Equality and Human Rights Commission at the time even demanded a formal inquiry into Prince Harry’s behavior. Muslim groups and leading MPs had even warned that Prince Harry’s racial comments could increase tensions with Islamic groups in the UK.
St. James’s Palace released a statement that said, “Prince Harry fully understands how offensive this term can be, and is extremely sorry for any offence his words might cause. However, on this occasion three years ago, Prince Harry used the term without any malice and as a nickname about a highly popular member of his platoon. There is no question that Prince Harry was in any way seeking to insult his friend.”
On Sunday night both Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made the claim that there were conversations over concerns of how dark their son Archie’s skin would be with senior members of the royal family.
“That was relayed to me from Harry. Those were conversations that family had with him,” Meghan added, declining to reveal who was involved in those conversations. “That would be very damaging to them,” she said.
“That conversation, I am never going to share,” Harry added. “At the time, it was awkward, I was a bit shocked.”
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